New and collected poems

A Collection Including Six Earlier Volumes Of Wilbur's Poetry, Twenty-seven New Poems, And A Cantata. The Ride -- Gnomons -- Alatus -- Lying -- On Having Mis-identified A Wild Flower -- Six Years Later / Joseph Brodsky -- Leaving -- The Catch -- Song / Vinicius De Moraes -- Icarium Mare -- Some Riddles From Symphosius -- Under A Tree -- Wyeth's Milk Cans -- For W. H. Auden -- Orchard Trees, January -- Mirabeau Bridge / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Trolling For Blues -- Advice From The Muse -- The Rule -- A Fable -- Transit -- Shad-time -- Worlds -- All That Is -- A Finished Man -- Hamlen Brook -- For Music -- On Freedom's Ground -- Back Then -- Our Risen States -- Like A Great Statue -- Come Dance -- Immigrants Still -- The Eye -- A Storm In April -- The Writer -- To The Etruscan Poets -- Sleepless At Crown Point -- Piccola Commedia -- A Wedding Toast -- March -- In Limbo -- A Sketch -- Peter -- Cottage Street, 1953 -- The Fourth Of July -- A Shallot -- A Black Birch In Winter -- For The Student Strikers -- C Minor -- To His Skeleton -- John Chapman -- April 5, 1974 -- Teresa -- Children Of Darkness -- Ballade Of Forgiveness / Francois Villon -- The Grasshopper And The Ant / Jean De La Fontaine -- Happy The Man / Joachim Du Bellay -- To Madame Du Chatelet / Voltaire -- Flippancies -- Two Riddles From Aldhelm -- Rillons, Rillettes -- The Prisoner Of Zenda -- The Funeral Of Bobo / Joseph Brodsky -- Phone Booth; An Arrow In The Wall / Andrei Voznesensky -- Two Poems / Nikolai Morshen -- The Mind-reader -- In The Field -- The Lilacs -- On The Marginal Way -- Complaint -- Fern-beds In Hampshire County -- In A Churchyard -- Seed Leaves -- A Wood -- For Dudley -- Running -- 1933 -- Patriots' Day -- Dodwells Road -- Under Cygnus -- Thyme -- Thyme Flowering Among Rocks -- A Miltonic Sonnet For Mr. Johnson -- A Riddle -- Playboy -- The Mechanist -- The Agent -- The Proof -- A Late Aubade -- Matthew Viii, 28 Ff. -- For K. R. On Her Sixtieth Birthday -- Walking To Sleep -- Translations -- Compass; Everness; Ewigkeit / Jorge Luis Borges -- Lot's Wife / Anna Akhmatova -- Foggy Street; Antiworlds; Dead Still / Andrei Voznesensky -- Rondeau / Charles D'orleans -- Ballade Of The Ladies Of Time Past; Ballade In Old French; A Ballade To End With / Francois Villon -- Two Voices In A Meadow -- Advice To A Prophet -- Stop -- Junk Loves Of The Puppets -- A Summer Morning -- A Hole In The Floor -- The Horses; Death, From A Distance / Jorge Guillen -- She -- Gemini -- The Undead -- October Maples, Portland -- Eight Riddles From Symphosius -- Shame -- A Grasshopper -- The Agrigentum Road / Salvatore Quasimodo -- The Aspen And The Stream -- A Fire-truck -- Someone Talking To Himself -- In The Smoking-car -- Ballade For The Duke Of Orleans -- Anteros / Gerard De Nerval -- To Ishtar -- Pangloss's Song: A Comic-opera Lyric -- Two Quatrains For First Frost -- Another Voice -- Tartuffe / Moliere -- Fall In Corrales -- Next Door -- A Christmas Hymn -- Altitudes -- Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World -- Sonnet -- Piazza Di Spagna, Early Morning -- John Chrysostom -- A Black November Turkey -- Mind -- After The Last Bulletins -- Lamarck Elaborated -- A Plain Song For Comadre -- Merlin Enthralled -- A Voice From Under The Table -- The Beacon -- Statues -- Looking Into History -- L'invitation Au Voyage / Charles Baudelaire -- Digging For China -- A Prayer To Go To Paradise With The Donkeys / Francis Jammes -- The Pelican / Philippe De Thaun -- Apology -- Helen / Paul Valery -- Beasts -- Exeunt -- Marginalia -- Boy At The Window -- Speech For The Repeal Of The Mccarran Act -- All These Birds -- A Baroque Wall-fountain In The Villa Sciarra -- An Event -- A Chronic Condition -- The Mill -- For The New Railway Station In Rome -- Then -- Conjuration -- A World Without Objects Is A Sensible Emptiness -- The Pardon -- Part Of A Letter -- La Rose Des Vents -- Epistemology -- Castles And Distances -- Museum Piece -- Ode To Pleasure -- In The Elegy Season -- Marche Aux Oiseaux -- Juggler -- Parable -- The Good Servant -- Pity -- The Sirens -- Year's End -- The Puritans -- The Olive Trees / Grasse -- The Avowal -- The Gifts -- Five Women Bathing In Moonlight -- The Terrace -- A Problem From Milton -- A Glance From The Bridge -- Clearness -- Games One -- Games Two -- Beowulf -- Still, Citizen Sparrow -- Wellfleet: The House -- The Death Of A Toad -- Driftwood -- A Courtyard Thaw -- Lament -- Flumen Tenebrarum -- From The Lookout Rock -- To An American Poet Just Dead -- Giacometti -- He Was -- A Simile For Her Smile -- Ceremony -- Cicadas -- Water Walker -- Tywater -- Mined Country -- Potato -- First Snow In Alsace On The Eyes Of An Ss Officer -- Place Pigalle -- Violet And Jasper -- The Peace Of Cities -- The Giaour And The Pacha -- Up, Jack -- In A Bird Sanctuary -- June Light -- A Song -- The Walgh-vogel -- The Melongene -- Objects -- A Dutch Courtyard -- My Father Paints The Summer -- Folk Tune -- Sun And Air -- Two Songs In A Stanza Of Beddoes' -- The Waters -- Superiorities -- A Simplification -- A Dubious Night -- L'etoile -- Sunlight Is Imagination -- & -- O -- The Regatta -- Bell Speech -- Poplar, Sycamore -- Winter Spring -- Attention Makes Infinity -- Grace -- Lightness -- For Ellen -- Caserta Garden -- Praise In Summer -- The Beautiful Changes. Richard Wilbur.